IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) e-ISSN: 2279-0853, p-ISSN: 2279-0861. Volume 9, Issue 4 (Sep.- Oct. 2013), PP 40-47 www.iosrjournals.org www.iosrjournals.org 40 | Page Role of Cemented Bipolar Hemiarthroplasty for Comminuted Inter-trochanteric Femur Fracture in elderly osteoporotic patients through a modified Transtrochanteric approach- “SION Hospital Modification”. Dr Atul Patil 1 (MS, DNB), Dr Muqtadeer Ansari 1 (MS, DNB), Dr Aditya Pathak 2 (MS,DNB), Dr A B Goregaonkar 3 (MS), Dr C J Thakker 4 (MS,DNB). 1.Assistant Professor,( Primary authors and surgeons) Department of Orthopaedics, Lokmanya tilak Medical College and Hospital, Sion, Mumbai , India 400022. 2.Assistant Professor,( Corresponding Author and surgeon) Department of Orthopaedics, Dr R N Cooper Hospital, Vile parle , Mumbai , India 400056 Ex Registrar - Department of Orthopaedics, Lokmanya tilak Medical College and Hospital, Sion, Mumbai , India 400022. 3.Professor and Head of Department of Orthopaedics, Department of Orthopaedics, Lokmanya tilak Medical College and Hospital, Sion, Mumbai , India 400022. 4.Ex-Professor and Head of Unit, Department of Orthopaedics, Lokmanya tilak Medical College and Hospital, Sion, Mumbai , India 400022. Abstract: We operated 126 elderly osteoporotic patients with mean age of 65.5 years who sustained Comminuted Inter-trochanteric femur fracture treated with Cemented Bipolar hemiarthroplasty and Tension band wiring for Greater trochanter through transtrochanteric approach. Mean Harris hip score at the mean follow up of 2.92 years was 80.76 and showed a statistically significant improvement as compared to pre- operative scores. Mean blood loss during the mean operative time of 61.35 min was 321 ml. In our case series we came across some serious complications like infection, dislocation, osteolysis, Non-union Greater trochanter, protusio and implant breakage but no fatalities were reported. 5 of our patient underwent repeat surgery in form of Total Hip Replacement and 1 Excision Arthroplasty. From our study we would like to suggest that Cemented Bipolar hemiarthroplasty is a viable technique for elderly osteoporotic patients with Comminuted inter-trochanteric femur fracture using “modified Sion hospital” technique with no trauma to abductors or external rotators of hip and sciatic nerve as we approach the hip through the fracture site itself and not posteriorly as in Southern Moore’s approach. It also helps in faster rehabilitation and recovery in elderly osteoporotic patients. Modified ―SION HOSPITAL‖ technique needs further evaluation and level 1 & 2 study for its efficiency comparing it to other approaches and its usage for Total hip arthroplasty in comminuted inter-trochanteric fractures. Keywords: Inter-trochanteric fractures, comminuted, unstable, Elderly osteoporotic, cemented Bipolar, Hemiarthroplasty. I. Introduction. Comminuted, unstable inter-trochanteric femur fractures are one of the most common fractures in elderly osteoporotic patients. Both Extracapsular and intracapsular neck femur fractures constitute one of the major cause of mortality in elderly population 1 . The mortality rates after occurrence of these fractures is as high as 20 percent in the first post-operative year 2 . These fractures are caused generally by trivial trauma like fall in bathroom or on floor, slipping while walking etc. Stable Inter-trochanteric fractures have been treated successfully with open reduction and internal fixation using Dynamic hip screw, Cephalomedullary nail or Jewett blade plate etc. But it has been a challenge, treating unstable comminuted inter-trochanteric femur fractures ( Evan type III and IV, AO/OTA type 31- A2.2 and 2.3) as in elderly osteoporotic patients ,anatomical reduction and early rehabilitation both are essential 3,4 .Cut-out, Excessive head collapse, Plate breakage , plate pullout, Z-effect, reverse Z effects are few of the implant related complications especially with unstable type of fractures 5,6 .Intramedullary device has shown better results with less cut-out rates in osteoporotic comminuted inter-trochanteric femur fractures but on the other hand Endoprosthetic replacements have proved good mid- long term survivorship and early rehabilitation 7,8,9 . The main motive of performing surgery in a comminuted inter-trochanteric fracture femur was early ambulation and avoids complications associated with Open reduction and internal fixation in elderly osteoporotic patients 10 .This aim is fulfilled to some extent by Bipolar hemiarthroplasty.
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IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS)
Role of Cemented Bipolar Hemiarthroplasty for Comminuted
Inter-trochanteric Femur Fracture in elderly osteoporotic
patients through a modified Transtrochanteric approach- “SION
Hospital Modification”.
Dr Atul Patil1(MS, DNB), Dr Muqtadeer Ansari
1(MS, DNB), Dr Aditya
Pathak2(MS,DNB), Dr A B Goregaonkar
3(MS), Dr C J Thakker
4(MS,DNB).
1.Assistant Professor,( Primary authors and surgeons) Department of Orthopaedics, Lokmanya tilak Medical
College and Hospital, Sion, Mumbai , India 400022.
2.Assistant Professor,( Corresponding Author and surgeon) Department of Orthopaedics, Dr R N Cooper
Hospital, Vile parle , Mumbai , India 400056
Ex Registrar - Department of Orthopaedics, Lokmanya tilak Medical College and Hospital, Sion, Mumbai ,
India 400022.
3.Professor and Head of Department of Orthopaedics, Department of Orthopaedics, Lokmanya tilak Medical College and Hospital, Sion, Mumbai , India 400022.
4.Ex-Professor and Head of Unit, Department of Orthopaedics, Lokmanya tilak Medical College and Hospital,
Sion, Mumbai , India 400022.
Abstract: We operated 126 elderly osteoporotic patients with mean age of 65.5 years who sustained
Comminuted Inter-trochanteric femur fracture treated with Cemented Bipolar hemiarthroplasty and Tension
band wiring for Greater trochanter through transtrochanteric approach. Mean Harris hip score at the mean
follow up of 2.92 years was 80.76 and showed a statistically significant improvement as compared to pre-
operative scores. Mean blood loss during the mean operative time of 61.35 min was 321 ml.
In our case series we came across some serious complications like infection, dislocation, osteolysis,
Non-union Greater trochanter, protusio and implant breakage but no fatalities were reported. 5 of our patient
underwent repeat surgery in form of Total Hip Replacement and 1 Excision Arthroplasty. From our study we would like to suggest that Cemented Bipolar hemiarthroplasty is a viable technique for elderly osteoporotic
patients with Comminuted inter-trochanteric femur fracture using “modified Sion hospital” technique with no
trauma to abductors or external rotators of hip and sciatic nerve as we approach the hip through the fracture
site itself and not posteriorly as in Southern Moore’s approach. It also helps in faster rehabilitation and
recovery in elderly osteoporotic patients. Modified ―SION HOSPITAL‖ technique needs further evaluation and
level 1 & 2 study for its efficiency comparing it to other approaches and its usage for Total hip arthroplasty in
I. Introduction. Comminuted, unstable inter-trochanteric femur fractures are one of the most common fractures in
elderly osteoporotic patients. Both Extracapsular and intracapsular neck femur fractures constitute one of the
major cause of mortality in elderly population1. The mortality rates after occurrence of these fractures is as high
as 20 percent in the first post-operative year2. These fractures are caused generally by trivial trauma like fall in
bathroom or on floor, slipping while walking etc. Stable Inter-trochanteric fractures have been treated
successfully with open reduction and internal fixation using Dynamic hip screw, Cephalomedullary nail or
Jewett blade plate etc. But it has been a challenge, treating unstable comminuted inter-trochanteric femur
fractures ( Evan type III and IV, AO/OTA type 31- A2.2 and 2.3) as in elderly osteoporotic patients ,anatomical
reduction and early rehabilitation both are essential 3,4.Cut-out, Excessive head collapse, Plate breakage , plate
pullout, Z-effect, reverse Z effects are few of the implant related complications especially with unstable type of fractures 5,6.Intramedullary device has shown better results with less cut-out rates in osteoporotic comminuted
inter-trochanteric femur fractures but on the other hand Endoprosthetic replacements have proved good mid-
long term survivorship and early rehabilitation7,8,9. The main motive of performing surgery in a comminuted
inter-trochanteric fracture femur was early ambulation and avoids complications associated with Open reduction
and internal fixation in elderly osteoporotic patients 10.This aim is fulfilled to some extent by Bipolar
hemiarthroplasty.
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The treatment of osteoporotic unstable comminuted inter-trochanteric femur fracture in elderly patients
has still been a controversial debate. The aim of our study was to evaluate the efficiency of Bipolar
hemiarthroplasty in such cases in terms of mid-term survivorship and functional outcome.
II. Material and Methods 126 patients underwent Cemented Bipolar hemiarthroplasty between 2007 and 2012 who had sustained
inter-trochanteric fractures. All patients were operated by primary and corresponding authors by
Transtrochanteric approach. We selected this approach as in all our cases greater trochanter and lateral wall was
fractured so in all cases femoral head was approached through the fracture site. We had kept certain inclusion
criteria for our study.
Inclusion Criteria –
1) Age- More than 55 years. 2) All Patients were osteoporotic, as confirmed on Bone mineral Density as per WHO guidelines.11
3) All sustained Evans type III and IV, AO/OTA type 31- A2.2 and 2.3 of Inter-trochanteric Fractures.
Unstable, Comminuted Fractures only.
4) No other fracture sustained only isolated Inter-trochanteric fracture
5) No head injury or other injury.
6) Fracture less than 3 weeks old
Exclusion Criteria-
1) Patients not willing to participate in the study.
2) Any Transcervical,subcapital, basicervical or subtrochanteric fractures.
3) Non comminuted IT fractures.
Anaesthesia –
Almost all the patients in our study were given Hypotensive epidural anaesthesia, Barring few who
were give general anesthesia.
Operative Technique –
With patient in lateral position, incision was taken on lateral aspect of hip, centered on proximal aspect
of greater trochanter .Proximally incision was curved posteriorly towards Posterior superior iliac spine. Tensor
Fascia Lata was cut in the direction of skin incision. Proximally fibres of gluteus maximus were dissected along
skin incision to expose fracture site. Now we carefully dissected fracture site and retracted fracture fragments of
greater trochanter, so as to reach base of femur neck. We extracted femur head and the attached neck through
this ―trans troachanteric window‘. After extraction of femoral neck and head, acetabulum was inspected and cleared of any of remaining bone pieces. Then we started femoral canal preparation using reamer and serial
broach‘s. After preparing femoral canal we drilled two holes on lateral aspect of proximal femur 5cm below
vastus ridge. 2 Holes were placed 2cm away from each other. A stainless steel wire was passed from outside
through one hole in the medullary canal and then taken out from another hole. Now the two free ends of the wire
are lying on lateral aspect of femur. The implant placement is now started with special emphasis on-
1. Ante version which is decided by using long axis of the leg as guide.
2. Length of the implant to be inserted in the femur is decided by carefully judging soft tissue tension. Also
tension is checked with Help Of Shuck Test showing less than 2-3mm of displacement, no dislocation of
the trial implant with , 10 degree of extension, 50 degree of abduction, 40 degree of adduction external
rotation of 30 degrees and flexion 90 -100 degrees and internal rotation of 40-50 degrees. Also Limb length
was aimed to maintained almost same as that of other limb and the amount of stem to be sinked in was carefully observed and marked both on trial and final implant before cementing and then cementing was
done.
3. No excess cement should spread on fracture site as it interferes with union of the fracture.
We had reconstructed all the calcar with help of cement. Once the Final implant of adequate size is
inserted, the hip is reduced. The fracture pieces of GT are now approximated to each other. A wire passer is
passed above tip of the trochanter deep inside the abductors. Previously passed wire is now crossed over and
passed through the wire passer, so as to complete figure of 8 which is now tightened. This achieves compression
across the fracture site and restores the abductor mechanism of hip. Closure is done in layers carefully over a
negative suction drain.
Post-operative and Rehabilitation Protocol-
All patients were kept under analgesic effect with help of epidural catheter till two days post-operative. All the patients operated, except for those who had landed with few immediate complications were started with
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Physiotherapy . All patients were treated with Quadriceps strengthening exercises immediately post op and full
weight bearing walk next day with help of walker for first 6 weeks post-operative. Thereafter patients started
full weight bearing with support of a stick. Patients were instructed to use only Western style commode for Toilet activity, strictly avoid Indian style commode, avoid activities involving squatting and cross legged sitting
for the rest of their life as a precautionary measure to avoid dislocation of the bipolar hemiarhoplasty. Patients
were followed up regularly at 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 3 months post-operatively and then yearly once.
III. Results Statistical Analysis was done by the statistician on Windows XP, Using Microsoft word, Microsoft
excel and SPSS 13 by statistician.
Patients were evaluated serially pre-operatively, 3 months post-operatively and then at final follow up using
Harris Hip score.
Variables-
We had 126 patients included in our study with 64 female and 62 male patients.57.9 % patients had suffered the
injury due to trivial trauma like fall from chair/bed, slip in bathroom or in house on floor. Rest 42.1% of patients
had suffered from major trauma like fall from significant height, road traffic accident or fall from stairs. The
data regarding all the variables are as given in Table 1.
Table No. 1 :
Statistics of various variables among the 126
cases
Variables No.
All cases Minimu
m
Maximu
m Mean SD Media
n IQR
Age (years) 126 65.75 7.85 66.00 12.00 55.00 88.00
Harris hip score:Pre-op 126 12.49 3.78 10.00 5.00 8.00 20.00
Note: IQR= Interquartile Range (i.e. 75th Percentile-25th Percentile)
Above Table shows that we had total of 126 patients with mean age of 65 years and mean follow up of
2.9 years. Our mean operative time was 61.35 minutes with mean blood loss of 321 ml . We had operated all the
patients within first two weeks of trauma with mean time between injury and operation being 3.5 days . The
biggest advantage with this surgery was that all the patients were mobilized immediately on next day of surgery
so the recovery and rehabilitation was quick with mean post-operative stay in hospital being 4.83 days. Mean
Harris hip score at 3 months follow up and final follow –up showed significant improvement from pre-op mean
of 12.49 to that of 69.60 and 80.76 respectively .This improvement was statistically significant. Of 126 patients
we had 76.2% patients with good Harris hip score, 21.4% patients had fair and 2.4%patients had poor scores
.Harris Hip score had no statistical significance or association with any of the variables used in our study.
Complications-
In our study we had certain significant complication but no mortalities. We divided the complication
into immediate(within 3 months post-operative) and delayed. We had 11 patients with immediate complication
and 8 with delayed complication. Details of the same are shown in table 2.
Table 2- Complications - Complications Immediate Delayed Measures Taken
Dislocation 1 Closed Relocated under
Anesthesia
Implant
Loosening/osteolysis
2 Both were converted to Total
hip arthoplasty
Infection 1 1 Immediated infection –
debridement and antibiotics
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given. It got cured. Delayed
infection at 1.5 years post-op
despite repeated debridements
and antibiotics-did not heal so
implant removal and conversion
to excision arthroplasty done.
Implant breakage 1 Converted to Long stemmed
total hip arthroplasty
Non-union Greater
trochanter
2 Both patients were treated with
ORIF with Tension band wiring
and freshening of fracture edges
of greater trochanter and bone
grafting
Protrusio 2 One of the patient was
symptomatic so it was
converted to total hip
arthroplasty and the other was
left alone as patient was not
symptomatic nor willing for
revision surgery.
Recurrent Dislocation 1 Initially treated with closed
reduction but despite repeat
dislocation -Coverted to Total
Hip Arthoplasty
Shortening 8 Only shoe raise given that too if
needed.
Total 5- Total Hip arthroplasty done
1- Excision arthroplasty Done
2 patients encountered with protrusion were at 4.5 years and 5.5 years of Follow-up. 2 patients encountered with
anterior thigh pain and osteolysis were at the mean age of 3 and 4.5years. One patient at follow-up of 2 years
had history of trivial trauma with implant breakage. The cause of loosening could not be ascertained and was
considered to be aseptic . Non of the complication was directly attributable to surgery statistically. But the
Harris hip score was found to have statistical significance in patients with complications with poor scores.
IV. Discussion. It is beyond doubt that implants like Dynamic hip screw , gamma nail and other intra-medullary
devices are the mainstay of treatment of Inter-trochanteric fractures12,13. But complications like screw cut-out,
Plate breakage, Z-effect, Reverse Z-effect are some of the implant related complication encountered in unstable
comminuted inter-trochanteric femur fractures , mainly in osteoporotic and elderly patients.5,6 Maintenance of
fracture reduction which should be anatomical or near anatomical, proper positioning of the implant and monitored weight bearing are the pre-requisites to achieve good functional outcomes. But In osteoporotic
elderly patients with Inter-trochanteric comminuted fracture femur the bone quality is poor, cut-out rates of
implant is high, loss of reduction is an known fact which leads to poor functional results. Also Ambulation is
prevented in elderly patients with fear of such complications, which in elderly patients causes other
complications like Aspiration Pnuemonitis, Bed sores , Deep vein thrombosis,atelectasis etc which gets further
complicated with existing co-morbidities.14 Hip fractures hence are most serious health care problems affecting
elderly patients. There were an estimated 1.66 million hip fractures world-wide in 1990, this worldwide annual
number will rise to 6.26 million by the year 205015,16.Failure rates between 6% - 32% have been reported for
internal fixation of both stable and unstable intertrochanteric hip 17,18.In our series we had very few implant
related complication. Also we had no patients with complications like Bed sore, aspiration pnuemonitis or
atelecasis as all the patients were immediately mobilized on next day of operation. Even care was taken that
those patients with immediate or delayed complication were given priority and needful was done to see to it that in them early mobilization was started.
Several studies in literature have shown that results with Cemented bipolar hemiarthroplasty are good.
It helps in early mobilization of patient with good and fast improvement in Harris Hip score. Complications like
pressure sores, aspiration, Pneumonitis are very rare with this surgery. Cemented bipolar hemiarthroplasty has
given constant good results in terms of early ambulation and good mid-term survival rates in comminuted
unstable inter-trochanteric fractures and results are constant as compared to variable results given by
osteosynthesis19,20,21 .Even our results were synchronous to the above studies in terms of early mobilization , less
implant related complications and faster over-all rehabilitation.
There have been many case series and comparative studies which have compared results of
osteosynthesis and cemented bipolar hemiathroplasty for similar unstable inter-trochanteric fractures. They have
proved that final outcome in both the groups were more or less comparable except for the fact that there was
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early ambulation in hemiarthroplasty group. They have also stated that blood loss and need for transfusion was
more in hemiarthroplasty group as compared to osteosynthesis22,23. We do agree that Blood loss and need for
blood transfusion is more in this surgery. We had mean blood loss of 321 ml with minimum of 200 ml and maximum of 800 ml.
The rate of repeat operation in case series with osteosynthesis in elderly patients has been reported to be as high
as 8-16%. Repeat surgeries in elderly patients with other co-morbidities have shown more medical
complications and implant related complications24,25. Our series had revision surgery 4.8 % which is less than
the osteosynthesis group.
We had used standard Tension band wiring technique for fixation of greater trochanter as shown in
case series by Zhang Q et at26. In our series we had encountered two delayed non –union of greater trochanter
which were treated with repeat open reduction and fixation with circlage wire and bone grafting. Both patients
presented clinically with pain at greater trochanter and decrease active abduction at follow-up of 4-5 months
post-operatively.
Haentjens et al27 and Geiger et al28 in their case series showed dislocation rate in the patient group who underwent total hip arthroplasty was significantly higher (12% to 44.5%) than those who had bipolar
arthroplasty(0 to 3.3%). We too had two (1.5%) patients who had got dislocated post-operatively. One of them
were treated with closed relocation under anaesthesia and the other had to be treated with Revision surgery in
form of total hip arthroplasty.
Study by George J et al 29 has shown Ten-year survivorship of cemented bipolar hemiarthroplasty in
inter-trochanteric fracture femur free of reoperation for any reason was 93.6%. We in our series have shown a
good early to mid-term survivorship at our mean follow up of 2.9 years with minimum of 1 year and maximum
of 6 years.
The literature supports that all three approaches have comparable dislocation rates when using the
posterior approach augmented with soft tissue repair and it is apparent an adequate soft tissue repair when
performing the posterior approach greatly reduces the relative risk of dislocation. But certain studies have also
shown that there are higher rates of dislocation with posterior approach when compared with transtrochanteric and antero-lateral approach. Studies have also shown that former has less rate of ectopic ossification as
compared to the latter two. Also there is higher rate of non-union with trans-trochanteric approach thus affecting
the abductor lever arm and can lead to Lurching gait 30.We in our case series had implemented a novel Trans-
trochanteric approach. We had selected all patients with comminuted inter-trochanteric fracture femur which has
Greater trochanter as a separate fragment. We had to repair Greater trochanter with tension band wiring
irrespective of the approach used .So we did not use Southern Moore‘s approach. As the greater trochanter
fragment was elevated supero-posteriorly we saw the fracture neck and the head through the fracture site. So
there was no need to cut external rotators which causes bleeding, nor we had to split Gluteus maximum or any
of the abductors. Since we were constantly on lateral aspect nerve was always safe posteriorly.Above mentioned
were the advantages of this approach in Comminuted inter-trochanteric fractures . We would like to name this
approach ―SION HOSPITAL‖ modification of Transtrochanteric approach for Comminuted inter-trochanteric fractures. There were two cases of dislocation and two cases of non-union Greater trochanter. We postulated
that dislocation may be most probably due to inadequate version and possible non union due to either cementing
technique or inadequate fixation. But the exact cause could not be ascertained.
In the short term, unipolar or bipolar hemiarthroplasty seem to give better results than open reduction
and internal fixation in the treatment of unstable intertrochanteric hip fractures in terms of mortality and
morbidity rates, complications,early rehabilitation and returning to daily living activities. Long-term problems
such as loosening, protrusio, stem failure, late infections and late dislocations have been prevalent. Because life
expectancy increases in all countries, long-term disadvantages of the hemiarthroplasty may outweigh its short-
term advantages. 31,32Our series too have shown such complications and long term survivorship of this implant
would always be questionable despite its advantages.
Our results were comparable to study by Sancheti et al33 and Elmorsy et al 34which has shown that
primary bipolar hemiarthroplasty in comminuted extra-capsular neck femur fracture five early mobilization, stable and painfree hip with early rehabilitation and return to daily routine life with less re-operation rate and is
fairly economical especially for developing countries.
Our study is an Level 4 study, hence firm conclusions cannot be as ascertained .Finally we agree with The
Cochrane Database analysis has also quoted insufficient evidence to prove superiority of osteosynthesis or
primary arthroplasty in inter-trochanteric fractures 35.So for the same a very well co-ordinated multicentric
randomized double blinded trial is essential to prove efficacy,feasibility and long term survivorship. Also the
use of this ―SION HOSPITAL‖ Modification of transtrochanteric approach in comminuted inter-trochanteric
fracture both for total hip arthroplasty and hemiarthroplasty is yet to be established. Its comparative study with
other approaches too needs further evaluation.
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V. Conclusion. Although Bipolar Hemiarthoplasty has its set of long term complications questioning its long term
survivorship, but it is an excellent and viable option for early ambulation and good early-mid term survivorship
, with less implant related complication for elderly osteoporotic patients with comminuted inter-trochanteric
fracture femur. Also ‗SION HOSPITAL‘ modification of transtrochanteric approach needs further extensive
study for its efficiency with respect to total hip arthroplasty and Level I/II studies comparing with other
approaches. In our study this approach is a good technique without harming Sciatic nerve, External rotators of
and abductors of hip.This is used for endoprosthetic replacement in comminuted inter-trochanteric fractures
with Greater trochanter as separated fragment.
Aknowledgement – None
Figure Legends –
Figure 1-
A-Pre-operative pelvis with both hips antero-posterior view with comminuted unstable intertrochanteric fracture